Deep End1970

Director
Jerzy Skolimowski

Acters

John Moulder-Brown (Michael 'Mike')
Jane Asher (Susan)
Karl Michael Vogler (Teacher)
Christopher Sandford (Chris)
Diana Dors (Mike's 1st Lady Client)
Louise Martini (Beata)

Fifteen-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan.

Teenager Mike has a crush on his 22-year-old colleague Susan in 60s London. But Susan likes men – not boys. When Mike finds out she’s having an affair with one man and is engaged to another, he begins stalking her and sabotaging her relationships. And when she rejects him after giving him a taste of what he wants, Mike goes off the deep end…

“Deep End”, Jerzy Skolimowski’s second English-language film, is a hauntingly disturbing love story that starts on a light note but gradually builds to a tragic climax. Like Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” or Polanski’s “Repulsion”, “Deep End” captures the sense of impending dread and spiritual breakdown in Swinging London at the end of the 1960s. The story of obsessive teenage love has a terrific soundtrack provided by singer-songwriter Cat Stevens and seminal German band The Can.

“A highly original slice of London life, beautifully made.” – London Evening Standard

“Everything about this singular film – the camerawork, the imagery, the soundtrack – feels vibrant and surprising in a way that makes most modern coming-of-age movies look formulaic and, well, shallow.” – Guardian

“Brilliantly designed, excellently acted.” – The Observer